[Bordeaux-threads-devel] Basically, I suck (LW patch)

[Matt Lamari]

I'm still around if anyone needs support on the functions I've added.

I don't know where the test suite is, let me know if you need
"unit-test-lw-conditions" modified to return instead of print errors.




Greg Pfeil wrote:
> Matt wrote this nice patch to add condition-variables for LispWorks,
> and I never  got it merged. I'm gone for the weekend, then switching
> jobs next week, then gone in Pittsburgh, then to Europe. I'm afraid if
> it's left to me, this will never get in.
>
> The only thing from my perspective that should change is that the
> unit-test-lw-conditions function should be moved into the test suite
> (as it should work just fine for any impl) so everyone gets the
> benefit. Stelian has a much better
> view of the state of BT these days than I do.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *"Matthew Lamari" <matt.lamari at gmail.com
>> <mailto:matt.lamari at gmail.com>>
>> *Date: *3 June 2008 11:55:42 EDT
>> *To: *"Greg Pfeil" <greg at technomadic.org <mailto:greg at technomadic.org>>
>> *Subject: **Re: [Bordeaux-threads-devel] Lispworks additions to
>> Bordeaux - where do I submit?*
>>
>>
>> I'm a win32 guy, so I'm not sure what you'd want the file diffed with
>> - please find the full file enclosed - I'm guessing the original
>> doesn't change very often, and that you could diff it faster than
>> explaining to me what to do.
>>  
>> I added a simple unit-test and tried to heavily comment this, as it's
>> not trivial like the other call-throughs, and should probably come
>> under more scrutiny.
>>  
>> (Unlike the non-implementation-supported literal polling) the
>> Lispworks' "process-wait"-based polling seems lightweight enough to
>> be usable in the same situations as true condition/notification, with
>> negligible cpu hit while waiting (see my comments if interested).
>>  
>>  
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